Reconstructing distances among objects from their discriminability

Psychometrika

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 365-386

  Dzhafarov, Ehtibar N ^a,b,d   Colonius, Hans ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous stimulus space; Discrete stimulus space; Discrimination; Fechnerian Scaling of Discrete Object Sets (FSDOS); Multidimensional Fechnerian Scaling (MDFS); Nonconstant Self Dissimilarity; Psychometric function; Regular Minimality

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746340255     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11336-003-1126-9     Document Type: Article

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